HH_survey: Data for Generating Weighted Number of Household Members

In Lauren-Eyler/EconomicClusters: Population-Specific Economic Groups Defined by Few Asset Variables

Data for Generating Weighted Number of Household Members

Description

This data set contains simulated variables for determining the weighted number of household members as per Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) wealth index protocols (Rutstein, n.d.).

Usage

data(HH_survey)

Format

A data frame with 100 observations on the following 3 variables.

HHwt

a numeric vector of household sampling weights

dejure

a numeric vector describing number of dejure household members

defacto

a numeric vector describing number of defacto household members

Details

This data frame includes simulated values for the three variables found in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) datasets that are necessary to determine the weighted number of household members, as described in the DHS wealth index protocols (Rutstein, n.d.). These variables are: number of dejure household members, number of defacto household members, and household sampling weight. Variables were simulated using function 'sample'.

Source

This data set was simulated by the package authors in order to demonstrate the functionality of the 'EconomicClusters' package.

References

Rutstein SO. (n.d.). Steps to Constructing the New DHS Wealth Index. ICF International: Rockville, Maryland, <http://dhsprogram.com/programming/wealth%20index/Steps_to_constructing_the_new_DHS_Wealth_Index.pdf>

See Also

EC_vars, EC_time, EconomicClusters

Examples

#In our sample data set, relevant variables are coded as follows:
#HH_survey$HHwt = household sampling weight
#HH_survey$dejure = number of dejure household members
#HH_survey$defacto = number of defacto household members
#Let's assume that we have already made a data frame containing 
#only the asset variables we will consider for variable selection, called 'assets'.
#Now, let's create a data frame with Column 1 containing weighted number of household members 
#and Columns 2 through 11 containing all asset variables to be considered for selection.

data(HH_survey)
data(assets)
data_for_EC<-EC_DHSwts(assets, HH_survey$dejure, HH_survey$defacto, HH_survey$HHwt)

#data_for_EC is now a data frame in the format needed to run 'EconomicClusters'

Lauren-Eyler/EconomicClusters documentation built on March 22, 2022, 1:21 a.m.